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Innovation department commits to Oracle hardware upgrade

Oracle’s hardware business continues to be popular among Federal Government agencies with the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) looking to refresh its existing SPARC Solaris systems.

By Rodney Gedda | 23 May, 2011 11:08

Tags: Craig Pennifold, Department of Innovation, government, oracle, solaris, sparc64, unix

McNealy: Sun could have won out over Linux

Sun Microsystems' mishandling of Solaris on the Intel platform left an opening for Linux to become established, when the company's Solaris OS could have won out instead, Sun co-founder and former CEO Scott McNealy said when interviewed Thursday evening by former Sun President Ed Zander at a Silicon Valley business and technology forum.

By Paul Krill | 26 February, 2011 00:10

Tags: application development, Intel, Java Programming, operating systems, oracle, software, solaris, The Industry Standard, unix

Maritime Safety Authority CIO sticks with Oracle Sun hardware

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) will expand its Oracle Sun hardware and software installation and set up a supplier panel for future upgrades and support services, all with the blessing of the CIO.

By Rodney Gedda | 08 February, 2011 11:30

Tags: Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), Ewan Perrin, government, oracle, servers, sparc64, Sun Mircosystems

Oracle releases Solaris 11 Express

Oracle on Monday released Solaris 11 Express, a version of the Unix operating system that is aimed at developers and also serves as a preview for the upcoming release of Solaris 11 next year.

By Chris Kanaracus | 16 November, 2010 07:21

Tags: business issues, open source, operating systems, oracle, software, Sun Microsystems, unix

Requiem for an OS: OpenSolaris board closes shop

Seemingly abandoned by its new owner, the open-source version of the Solaris operating system, called OpenSolaris, has now lost its governing board as well.

By Joab Jackson | 24 August, 2010 06:06

Tags: OpenSolaris, open source, operating systems, oracle, software, Sun Microsystems, unix

Oracle signals an end to OpenSolaris

Oracle appeared to confirm this week what many in the computer industry already suspected: The OpenSolaris project is dead.

By James Niccolai | 14 August, 2010 08:50

Tags: OpenSolaris, open source, oracle, Sun Mircosystems, unix

Oracle provides Sparc road map, but questions remain

Oracle has sketched out a five-year road map for Sun's Sparc-based servers, hoping to reassure customers about the future of the platform and reverse a pattern of declining sales.

By James Niccolai | 11 August, 2010 05:57

Tags: Components, hardware systems, oracle, processors, servers, server virtualization, solaris, sparc, Virtualization

OpenSolaris Governing Board may dissolve

Frustrated by what they consider poor treatment and lack of interest from Oracle, members of the OpenSolaris Governing Board are essentially delivering an ultimatum to the vendor, asking that it appoint a liaison to the group by no later than Aug. 16, or else the board will be disbanded.

By Chris Kanaracus and Joab Jackson | 15 July, 2010 04:11

Tags: business issues, OpenSolaris, open source, operating systems, oracle, software, solaris, Sun Microsystems, unix

Tassie cops refresh 'legacy' Sun, move to Web services

Tasmania’s Department of Police and Emergency Management will spend about $200,000 to modernise its 'legacy Sun Solaris-based infrastructure which has hosted is core business applications for more than two decades.

By Rodney Gedda | 31 May, 2010 13:45

Tags: government, Linux, oracle, police, solaris, Sun Mircosystems, tasmania, unix, virtualisation

Sun's Solaris now getting quarterly security patches

Oracle has moved Solaris onto its quarterly security patch schedule, meaning users of the Sun Microsystems operating system will now know months in advance when they will be getting security updates.

By Robert McMillan | 09 April, 2010 09:45

Tags: oracle, patches, sun

Oracle, Sun to launch OLTP product despite merger hurdles

Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems is being closely scrutinized by European Union regulatory authorities, but that isn't stopping the companies from making their first joint announcement since the deal was announced in April.

By Mikael Ricknäs | 15 September, 2009 06:10

Tags: OLTP, oracle, servers, Sun Mircosystems

Sun plans on-chip security boost for Ultrasparc

Sun Microsystems' product plans are up in the air pending its acquisition by Oracle, but the company's chip engineers continue to present new designs in the hope they'll see the light of day.

By James Niccolai | 26 August, 2009 13:50

Tags: Hot Chips, security, sparc64, Sun Mircosystems

US DOJ approves Oracle-Sun deal

Oracle on Thursday said the U.S. Department of Justice has approved its US$7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, although the deal is subject to certain conditions and still needs the blessing of European regulators.

By Chris Kanaracus | 21 August, 2009 07:16

Tags: mergers & acquistions, Oracle-Sun merger, USA government

Open source Xen a 1-Stop for transport IT company

Sydney-based transport industry data interchange and portal provider 1-Stop Connections has migrated most of its core infrastructure to virtual servers and iSCSI SANs to reduce its infrastructure requirements and management complexity.

By Rodney Gedda | 06 August, 2009 14:24

Tags: dell, equallogic, iscsi, storage, Transport, virtualisation, xen

Sun shareholders approve Oracle merger

Sun Microsystems' shareholders voted on Thursday to approve the company's acquisition by Oracle, but not by a wide margin.

By James Niccolai | 17 July, 2009 04:31

Tags: mergers & acquistions, oracle, Oracle-Sun merger, Sun Mircosystems

OpenSolaris is becoming more like regular Solaris

Lines are beginning to blur between the open source and commercial versions of the Sun Microsystems Solaris Unix operating system.

By Paul Krill | 01 June, 2009 14:09

Tags: OpenSolaris, solaris, Sun Microsystems, unix

Food company cooks up in-house ERP software

Melbourne-based oil and margarine manufacturing company Peerless Foods has snubbed the multi-national ERP vendors and developed its own software to manage everything from invoices to product distribution.

By Rodney Gedda | 27 April, 2009 14:44

Tags: accounting, CIOs, ERP, ingres database, openroad, scm, software development

Oracle, entering hardware arena, agrees to buy Sun for $7.4bn

Oracle has signed a deal to purchase Sun Microsystems for US$7.4 billion, plunging the enterprise software vendor into the hardware market and making Sun the latest company to be subsumed by the Silicon Valley giant.

By Elizabeth Montalbano | 21 April, 2009 05:32

Tags: Java, mergers & acquistions, oracle, Oracle-Sun merger, Sun Microsystems

OpenSolaris, Linux could merge under Oracle

Oracle may end up merging the best of OpenSolaris with Linux once it takes control of Sun Microsystems, but it is unlikely to kill off Sun's widely used Solaris OS, analysts said.

By Elizabeth Montalbano | 21 April, 2009 04:35

Tags: mergers & acquistions, oracle, Oracle-Sun merger, Sun Microsystems

Sun confirms 1,500 job cuts this week

Sun Microsystems is laying off about 1,500 employees this week in a follow-up to a restructuring plan announced a few months ago, the company confirmed Monday.

By James Niccolai | 31 March, 2009 08:06

Tags: layoffs, Sun Microsystems

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